Open Science! Preprint public review and authors' response w/additional data ~ exciting topic of plant BR signaling. 植物ステロイドホルモンシグナル伝達経路を大きく訂正するプレプリントに大御所が批判。著者らが更に実験し反論。これぞオープンサイエンス🌱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very interesting paper-- evolutionary redeployment of MUTE to generate unique CAM plant (Kalanchoë) stomatal complex. From Raissig Lab, Sci Adv 🌵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

私がワシントンDC近郊に出張中、連れは、テキサスの大富豪の牧場でのシンポジウムで発表したそうだが、、、参加していた大学院生がガラガラ蛇に噛まれて、ヒューストンの救急医療機関に搬送されたそうだ。。テキサス恐るべし。。🐍😱

Just 4 days left to submit your abstract for the Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 🌱 Join us in Cambridge (22–24 Sept) to share your work on plant morphogenesis — talks & posters all welcome. 🗓 Deadline: 30 March 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la... Don’t miss out! #SLS26 #PlantScience #plantsci

🌸🌸🌸Back to the Scientists’ Utopia.... for just three days. 🌸🌸🌸

Our review on ERECTA-family receptors @theplantjournal.bsky.social- their versatile roles in development, mechanisms of receptor activation, signal transduction, subcellular trafficking, non-canonical pathways, and potential agricultural applications. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beautiful! @keikoutorii.bsky.social and co! Comparative proteomic profiling of receptor kinase signaling reveals key trafficking components enforcing plant stomatal development | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Published! From a proteomic atlas of the ERECTA signaling network, we show that receptor kinase endocytosis is essential for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, Pengfei, @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @texasscience.bsky.social & co-authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 How do plants read positional cues? 🌿 ERECTA-family receptors interpret spatiotemporal peptide cues, integrating receptor activation, signaling dynamics, trafficking, and non-canonical pathways. ✍️ Bai and @keikoutorii.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70793

📽️Our promotional video by JoVE Journal 📽️ "Efficient Regeneration-based Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of an Asexual Amphibious Brassicaceae Species, Rorippa aquatica". The first author, Our awesome tech, Page explains the scientific rationale🥰🌱🧬 app.jove.com/v/69672/

日本植物生理学会2026年会に参加されている皆様、9Fの@aspbofficial.bsky.social (アメリカ植物生物学会)ブースに遊びに来てください。缶バッジやPlant Cell, Plant Physなどロゴのシール、ペンなどグッズも沢山。ASPB CEOのCrispin、それに私も時折顔を出します🌱🌸🤩 bsky.app/profile/stom...

STEM Girl Day at UT Austin @texasscience.bsky.social this weekend. 25 years of promoting future #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🏫👩‍💻👩‍🔬👩‍🎓🤘 今週末は弊大学•テキサス大学オースティン校の「理数工系の女子の日」。幼稚園〜中学生が対象。四半世紀続け粘り強く、科学技術分野への女性の参入を後押し。 girlday.utexas.edu

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA - Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴 Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Sutarday morning in Austin TX neighborhood 🤠!

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany. Registration opening soon!

Very nice genetic dissection of the roles of BSK kinases in brassinosteroid signaling by Wenqiang Tang's lab. bsk-u (ko for BSK1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12) really looks like a bri1 null mutant and can be rescued by over-expressing BSK3. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Happy Luna New Year 2026!🥰🐴🧧 ~Cerebrating all the great news in the Torii lab.

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Feb 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science and at RIKEN BDR, we celebrate the achievements of #womeninscience by holding an IDWGIS Symposium. We also recently launched Mirai Alliance, a mentorship network for women researchers in life sciences. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/bdr-...

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Our latest at JoVEJournal. Scalable, inexpensive transformation pipeline using RUBY🌱❤️. tuned for the video📽️. Congrats, Page and Calvin 🥰! "Efficient Regeneration-based Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of an Asexual Amphibious Brassicaceae Species, Rorippa aquatica" app.jove.com/t/69672/effi...

This is a very special paper for me. I had the idea of combining transcription factor binding with chromatin in 2016/8. It took some time, but thanks to Fred and Vikas, we can finally share the story in @plos.org Genetics looking at chromatin states in Arabidopsis and Marchantia. #PlantScience

Loving this beautiful cover image in this week's @science.org illustrating the paper which came out online late last year www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Plantscience

Seattle is getting very serious about the New Year Countdown 2026 #Cloudcity😭 新年カウントダウンの花火＆ドローンショウまであと二時間半。霧の街シアトルが本気を出してきた.. left: this morning; right: 2.5 hours to the countdown 左: 大晦日の昼; 右: 新年まであと二時間半

Congrats, Ayami. Review article (in JPN) describing the discovery of a small molecule that reduces the number of stomata. W/ our long-term collaborator chemist Prof. Kei Murakami [気孔の数を調節する分子の発見]🌱⚗️ www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jscr...

Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳 Just published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well done, Akie! Identification of a peptide hormone-receptor module bypassing the ABA signaling to close stomata upon drought. A big breakthrough🍃😊 -Local peptide signalling induces stomatal closure under drought stress @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome editing of goldenberry ERECTA for crop ideotype. Congrats, Zach Lippman, Joyce Van Eck & the team! "Engineering compact Physalis peruviana to promote its potential as a global crop". ERECTA rock😉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 ASPB Awards. It is important that ASPB honor the most notable achievements and contributions of plant scientists worldwide.🌱 👉 The deadline is Friday, February 13! buff.ly/ziJ3tAt. #plantscience

CSHL - Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering 2025 Meeting. At the poster session. Just wonderful to meet w/ talented Early Career Scientists 🥰🧬🌱. I learned so much from this broader plant bio meeting. Thanks, Cyril, Becky, and Beth for the invitation! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Last week, I had the chance to participate in the XVII Chilean Society for Plant Biology meeting 🤩. Inspiring talks from colleagues in Chile and invited speakers @keikoutorii.bsky.social, Malcolm Bennett, @gabkrouk.bsky.social , José Feijó and many others. Looking forward to the next edition!

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word! tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

Somos las biólogas vegetales! Santiago, Chile 🌱🇨🇱🥰　#WomenInScience

Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳 Just published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪 HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾 jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

Why plant embryos do not differentiate stomata? Discovery of the key peptide hormone. Embryo-specific peptide EPFL8, perceived by ERECTA, inhibits SPCH in a TMM-independent manner. Excellent work by the Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Xingyun Qi. Congrats🌱🔬! academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available → authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...

"Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Plant Interkingdom Environment Interaction and or Plant Immunity at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Torii_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades www.salk.edu/news-release...

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説. I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱 natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/product...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

Exciting🌱! Reprogramming stomatal precursor cells to totipotency -- Cooperation of LEC2 with SPEECHLESS induces auxin biosynthesis genes, inciting a bifurcation of stomatal differentiation trajectory into a new, somatic embryo founder cell state. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So wonderful to catch up w/ long-term friends & colleagues and discuss about exciting topics of plant science in beautiful Denver ⛰️🥰!

Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説. I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱 natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/product...